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There are a limited number of V2 languages that can allow for embedded verb movement for a specific pragmatic effect similar to that of English. This is due to the perspective of the speaker. Languages such as German and Swedish have embedded verb second. The embedded verb second in these kinds of languages usually occur after 'bridge verbs'. [12]
The embedded verb is an infinitive (suffix -mAK)-a form found in Control contexts; Both the embedded infinitive and the matrix verb have to carry Passive morphology (with one exception, to be discussed later); Only 3 matrix verbs occur in this construction, exemplified above, all Subject-Control verbs; Infinitives in Turkish bear no Agreement ...
Two common verbs -nequi and *-quiya select an embedded verb inflected in the future singular. The verb nequi may be used independently with the meaning "to need" or "to want", and when it embeds a future verb, it may mean "to want to do" or occasionally "to be about to", "to be on the verge of" e.g.:
In linguistics, negative raising is a phenomenon that concerns the raising of negation from the embedded or subordinate clause of certain predicates to the matrix or main clause. [1] The higher copy of the negation, in the matrix clause, is pronounced; but the semantic meaning is interpreted as though it were present in the embedded clause.
Exceptional case-marking (ECM), in linguistics, is a phenomenon in which the subject of an embedded infinitival verb seems to appear in a superordinate clause and, if it is a pronoun, is unexpectedly marked with object case morphology (him not he, her not she, etc.). The unexpected object case morphology is deemed "exceptional".
As a dependent clause, a non-finite clause plays some kind of grammatical role within a larger clause that contains it. What this role can be, and what the consequent meaning is, depends on the type of non-finite verb involved, the constructions allowed by the grammar of the language in question, and the meanings of those constructions in that language.
Verb first clauses in English usually play one of three roles: 1. They express a yes/no-question via subject–auxiliary inversion, 2. they express a condition as an embedded clause, or 3. they express a command via imperative mood, e.g. a. He must stop laughing. – Standard declarative SV-clause (verb second order) b. Should he stop laughing ...
The a-sentences contain auxiliary verbs that do not select the subject argument. What this means is that the embedded verbs go, do, and lie and cheat are responsible for semantically selecting the subject argument. The point is that while control verbs may have the same outward appearance as auxiliary verbs, the two verb types are quite different.